Aug 28
If you’re one of the few people who visit canspice.org instead of reading posts through my RSS feed, you’ve probably already noticed that things look a little different. That’s right, I’m now using the arclite theme by Digital Nature. I think it looks better than the previous theme I was using.
Currently the only page that doesn’t seem to work is the archives page. That’ll be fixed sometime in the future.
What do you think? Keep the colour or go back to the stark black & white of yesterday?
Mar 22
No, not that FBI. FBI in this case stands for “From Big Island.” That’s right, I’m a blogger from the Big Island, and Damon Tucker has tagged me as one of the select few (okay, one of twenty-five) bloggers from the Big Island whose posts are going to be aggregated on FBI Blogs.
If you’re interested in news from the Big Island, or news from around the world with a Big Island perspective, check out the FBI Blogs!
Jan 21
If you subscribe to my blog via its RSS feed, please update your readers to point to http://feeds2.feedburner.com/canspice (for posts) and http://feeds2.feedburner.com/canspice-comments (for comments). I believe that things are supposed to forward automatically, but you never know with these things.
It’s a small change, going from feeds to feeds2, but please make it! Why the change? So I can serve up evil nasty ads and help offset some of the cost of canspice.org, which is currently (only) about $100 a year. Ads should only show up on posts longer than about 100 words, so this one might slip in ad-free.
Thanks!
Jun 20
I’ve just installed Alex King’s Twitter Tools plugin. If all goes well, something to do with this post should show up on my Twitter thingie.
Edit: Holy shit it worked!
Jun 20
This is directed to those of you who might only read these notes on Facebook. You may (or may not, which is more likely) be interested to know that I don’t write these on Facebook; they get pulled over from my blaugh at www.canspice.org.
If you’re at all interested in following along, I suggest subscribing to my RSS feed. What is RSS? It’s a standard way for websites (and other such technologies) to publish updates automatically, and software polls RSS feeds on a periodic basis to retrieve these updates. Using an aggregator (also referred to as an RSS reader or news reader), you can keep up-to-date with a number of websites at the same time without having to visit them individually. Personally, I use Vienna on OS X. Other OS X RSS readers include NetNewsWire and NewsFire. Web-based RSS readers include Google Reader, which allows you to access your RSS feeds from any Internet-connected computer.
So Facebook readers, you don’t need to follow along on Facebook, you can use a separate program and collect updates from all kinds of websites in one convenient location!
Apr 10
This might be the quickest blog software upgrade I’ve done. WordPress 2.5 was announced 12 days ago, and I’ve just upgraded to it. As always, the upgrade was painless, but if you notice anything strange, please let me know.
Edit: Fixed a problem with the Archives page.
Aug 30
An administrative note to those of you who subscribe to my RSS feed: please switch over to use my new FeedBurner feed. Let me know how it works out — I’ll switch back to the standard WordPress feed if things go awry.
Jul 30
If you weren’t able to get through to canspice.org yesterday, it’s because my hosting provider updated the operating system on the server. The upgrade went a little less smoothly than expected, but Geof plowed through the night and we were the sixth domain restored.
I want to take the opportunity to publicly thank Geof for all his efforts. Not many people would stay up until two in the morning to get stuff fixed, especially when they have to work the next day. Many thanks, Geof!
Apr 2
If you’ve been visiting the front page of canspice.org recently, you might’ve noticed a bit of a slowdown. Or maybe more than a bit. Or maybe a complete failure to load. In any case, loading the front page should now be snappy. There’s some sort of problem over at last.fm, causing my “recently played” snippet at the top to take forever to load, causing the page to take forever to load. I’ve disabled that snippet, and now everything is back to its usual level of normalcy.
03 April 2007 update: Looks like last.fm fixed their shit, so I have renabled the fun musical information up at the top of the page.
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Changes afoot
Jan 14
Posted by Brad in Site News | No Comments
Astute readers may have noticed that last night I switched themes here on canspice.org. The new theme is named iNove. This theme allows me to put in a sidebar, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while but haven’t got around to it.
I have since discovered that commenting appears to be slightly broken in that most legitimate comments are ending up classified as spam. I’m working on fixing this, and have approved the four comments that I’ve found so far. If your comment hasn’t come through, email me.
I’ve also trimmed up my blogroll. If you think you should be on it, let me know!
And just to keep things current, I’ve updated to Wordpress 2.7!
Tags: blogroll, comments, theme, wordpress